PENNY
,
ANNE
(
fl.
1729-1780
),
author
.

The entry in the
Bangor
(
Caerns.
) parish register recording her christening under
6 Jan. 1728/9
, describes her as daughter of
BulkeleyHughes
(d.
1740?
),
cleric
, and
Mary
his wife; the father
became
vicar
of
Bangor
,
2 June 1713
, and was instituted to the living of
Edern
on
17 Jan. 1722/3
. She married
Penny
, and lived in
London
(
Bloomsbury Square
), where all her works were published. These are —
Anningait and Ajutt … A Greenland Tale Inscribed to Mr. Samuel Johnson
,
1761
;
Select Poems from Mr. Gesner's Pastorals
,
1762
;
Poems with a Dramatic Entertainment
,
1771
;
A Pastoral Elegy
,
1773?
;
Poems
,
1780
(a reprint of the
1771
work).
ThomasPennant
refers to the
1780
work in his
Tours in Wales
, ii, whilst
RichardMorris
, one of the
Morris
brothers of
Anglesey
, knew of the
authoress
. One of her poems is entitled ‘
Taliesin's poem to Elphin
.’

Sources:

A. Ivor Pryce
,
Diocese of Bangor During Three Centuries,
seventeenth to nineteenth century inclusive being a digest
of the registers of the bishops
(1929)
;